Artwork Description

The mission which i choose to accept was to depict a character or creature from the world created by China Mieville!.

man what fun i had.A scanned sketch,this is a depiction of the giant sea beast which tuggs a giant pirate city behind it.(hopefully you can see a bit of the village under the boat!).I FYI have never read "the scar",but it really sounds choice,so i shall track a copy down!.In the contest there was a description of the various creatures in most of Chinas books.This little detail caught my attention
"Seabeasts the size of continents" and "Giant cities built up of many boats".I bet a million my interpretation is not correct*(since the creature only seems 1 1/2 mile wide ) so to speak,but i had a crap load of fun so there .

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Comments

Thanks mate, this particular piece was my first scanned sketch. I am quite fond of this one because i captured what i wanted from my sketch in the final version!. although i still lost a bit of the vision. But overall i was quite happy.

Wow thats the hell comment explosion there mate . Well i just use photoshop seven and wacom!. Thats what i use for all my stuff. Its the only program i know how to use and am actually happy as is, i'm not the slightest bit interested in 3d at all. Nothing against it, i just try to limit my time infront of the screen .

well i suppose a larger version would totally freak ya out then .I have one if ya want one ^^hehe.anyways It was inspired by a logerhead turtle, which i crossed with crab pincers, it's really a crab/turtle hybrid.I Tried to have pincers coming out of the water ahead of the creature, thats where thay are meant to be protruding,as if to grab the vessel(i might add from the wrong timeline ,The scar is more early 19 hundreds by all accounts).Thank you very much for the flattering comments jess.Have a good 1~~Marley

I don't know the book and I don't really have anything informed to add to the previous comments, but that is one unsettling creature. It really creeps me out. I can't figure out its anatomy, and by far it is the most disturbing of your works to me.

teehee, thanks caric, this is by far my favourite this year for many reasons,But mainly because i seem to be getting the aesthetic i am after.The Creature "Avanc" is close to my original sketch.So its really my first scanned sketch to finished art in a very long time, my pieces are usually 100% digital.Thanks Caric

woot! I tried to comment yesterday but something was wrong and it wouldn't let me... anyway, I like this one almost as much as I like Neptune... the green glow is so RAD. That's probably what everyone else has said too but.. oh well.

Wow thats a great compliment James,Your the first to mention the strain of the city on the creature,awesome observation,Thank you.I was really pleased with the creature too, one of my favourite pieces this is ^^.Thank you

Stunning work, Marley! I'll have to check out these China Mieville books, if they can inspire fantastic imagery like this then they've got to be something else! The creature is awesome, the power and strain is so evident in the way you have rendered the gigantic beast (pulling islands about can't be easy!) and that turbulent sea! Marvellous!

Howdy sean ^^,The movement wasn't going so well in the early stages,then it was moving,then i had trouble in the dying stages of the piece before it finished.Now it moves nicely .hehehe.Thanks again ^^